Network news in the 80's wasn't ever "biased" in the way that Fox was from the start. That's just nonsense, sorry. What makes Fox "Fox" is not merely the fact

Network news in the 80's wasn't ever "biased" in the way that Fox was from the start. That's just nonsense, sorry. What makes Fox "Fox" is not merely the fact that their reporters "don't represent the diversity of political views in America" (they don't, of course) but the fact that they deliberately spin coverage in one direction or another. Identical situations (c.f. the current "crisis" at the border which echos the same stuff that was happening two years ago but somehow wasn't a problem with White House policy then!) are presented differently depending on the partisan identity of the actors, and that's something mainstream media has never done. (And I think you're going to need to cite that "80-90%" number, which seems made up. Nothing is that uniform, even CPAC has a bunch of registered libertarians and independents walking around.)